The incident that caused you to end lending a knife.

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In another thread the topic of do you let people borrow your knives came up. There was an overwhelming amount of nos. One person even mentioned that someone who borrowed their knife actually took a swipe at someone with it. This reminded me of my own nail in the coffin story. And instead of sending that thread off topic I made this one. Here is my story of the last time I let someone use a knife.

I was at a friends house with 3 buddies. Two of them started to play fight. My mistake was that I jokingly opened a benchmade 45 balisong and passed it to one of them kinda like an "ok, game over" gesture and everyone would laugh blah blah blah. It did NOT turn out that way. Before I could even blink this person grabbed the knife and actually lunged at the other guy. I was shocked. So the other guy puts his arms up and gets a 45 planted about 1" deep into his wrist. Bloods going everywhere and Im freaking out scared my dad was going to confiscate my collection ( I was maybe 13 or 14 at the time) and I run up to my friend and ask how bad it is. He says, "I dont know, feels pretty bad". He lifts his hand off the wound and I swear blood shot a foot straight in the air. Apparently it got the vein just enough to spurt. I think it took one or two stiches in the actual vein and about 10 for the cut. That was the last day I handed anyone a knife unless it was just for them to inspect. And even that I dont do anymore because it seems any time a non knife person gets an expensive blade in their hand their instinct is to do the stupidest thing possible with it to prompt a swift retrieval. Your story?
 
Scary, never had a bad experience lending a knife. I am one of the few that still says yes. I guess my day will come.
 
Compared to your story I guess I am pretty lucky.
The only thing that happened with mine was I loaned it to a guy during a break in our law enforcement training class and just as
I was droning out "the most commonly abused part of the knife is the tip..." he promptly broke off the tip of my beloved BM
Rukus using it as a screw driver.

Since then I have given a handfull of knives as gifts, but haven't loaned it out very many times at all.
 
Dull to you and me is sharp to a non knife person. Most people have never used an extremely sharp knife. I let a co worker use my knife to open a coffee bag and he also cut himself. His reply " Holy crap that knife is sharp" After that, I stopped letting folks use my knife.
 
Use your own knife...and cut something for them if it needs cutting.
I once sharpened a very dull axe for a buddy...went through an expensive sanding belt and some hand-work. Several days later, I found out that my buddy's neighbor borrowed his sharp axe and was chopping up bricks with it, to line his garden. That was "it" for me.
 
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This is why I don't carry expensive knives. I know that eventually some jackass is going to do something stupid with it.
 
If someone asks to use a knife, I tell them that I don't have a knife on me. I have the misfortune of having a fierce-looking knife as an EDC and I'd rather not show it at all outside of the work environment where people are already familiar with my using it and understand what it's for.

I don't have the patience to carry a third knife just for the purpose of lending it out on the off chance that someone asks.
 
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Totally agree. Many of them say they are afraid to use a super sharp knife.
I actually brought my diamond stone and sharpmaker to work last week and offered to sharpen the main blade on my co workers Leatherman.
I did so and achieved a nice edge that would easily shave and push cut news print.
The next evening he came to work wearing a bandaid. Took a chunk off of his left thumb cutting something. Whoops!

To the OP. Never had a major screw up besides a guy borrowing my knife and then stealing it , claiming it was lost.
If someone needs my knife, I simply do the cutting for them.

Ajack60 said:
Dull to you and me is sharp to a non knife person. Most people have never used an extremely sharp knife. I let a co worker use my knife to open a coffee bag and he also cut himself. His reply " Holy crap that knife is sharp" After that, I stopped letting folks use my knife.
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I don't recall too may bad instances from loaning a knife, I learned my lesson a long time ago.

A few years ago I didn't loan out a knife but I opened a package and placed my knife on the table temporarily. I turned around to get it and it was gone. My uncle had picked it up and I found him scraping a dirty cast iron pot with it!

Also a few years ago I handed a small multitool to my wife and she cut her finger with it.

So I learned again that I should use the knife for them. I also learned that no matter how much my wife complains I don't put sharp knives in the kitchen.
 
I lent a knife to a guy one time who cut himself very badly and tried to blame me for having a knife that was too sharp. He learned that stupid hurts. So now I never lend, I always cut whatever it is myself or just don't offer.
 
I was carrying my 801CF, freshly sharpened to a polished edge. A guy at work asked to borrow my knife to cut a piece of paper. I said sure, no problem. How could a piece of paper mess up my edge? He set the paper flat on a stainless steel table and dragged my beautiful edge across it :(
 
asdf12345 said:
I have the misfortune of having a fierce-looking knife as an EDC and I'd rather not show it at all outside of the work environment where people are already familiar with my using it and understand what it's for.
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what's this fierce-looking EDC you speak of?
 
Don't loan my EDC blade or handgun and would definitely not even consider it when it's the only weapon I'm carrying.
 
I've shared this story before, but here goes:

There was a young man that graduated from high school with my daughter, and he just seemed like a lost puppy. His family was broken, he had no real future, and had nowhere to turn. We liked the kid, had him here often for family gatherings, BBQ's, etc. We wanted to at least make him feel like he could come here if he needed, for any reason.

One day, he came down, and proudly announced he was joining the Navy. He'd spent some time in some kind of preliminary training, and he was accepted to try for one of the special forces. He was ecstatic, and we were both proud and happy for him.

He had his bag packed, and he stopped here to say goodbye, and to wish him luck. I gave him my Sebenza, and told him that it would take care of him, if he took care of it. He proudly slipped it into his pocket, and he was gone.
He walked straight into the airport, and tried to board the plane. The TSA pulled him aside, asked him a volley of questions, pulled the Sebenza from his pocket, and threw it in the trash bin where they throw those sorts of pointy things.

I still like the kid, but I'll never give away an expensive knife again.
 
I've had borrowed knives returned missing tips and with dulled edges. Even loaned one or two out that never came back. I finally learned. I used to sharpen my buddies knives till they started needed total regrinds. He told me he let a guy use it at work to cut cardboard. Said cardboard was cut on a smooth flat surface known as concrete. He got his knives sharpened one last time. Id advise anyone who really wants to help out the cutlery challenged to get one of the folding razor knives at the dollar store. When someone asks if they can borrow your knife, instead of handing over the Sebenza, hand em the dollar store razor.
 
I had an ex examining a straight razor and ran her finger down the edge and immediately gave me a dumbfounded look when it peeled open her finger. I will only let family and a few friends use one of my knives or I give them a beater knife.
 
I got stabbed in the hand for lending my knife out...
It went kind of like this:

Friend:"Hey bro, got your knife?"

Me:Yep... Here ya go! *tosses closed Manix 2 to friend*

Friend:"Here man, I'm done with it" *tosses me opened Manix 2*

Me:Oh noes!!!!!!

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Yes.....

I had a little captain in me...
 
I was at a birthday party and a parent was desperately looking for a knife to open some bags of ice etc. I gave them my Vic Cadet that I carry in situations like this because it's not threatening... A half hour later I went looking for my knife and said parent was using my knife to "bust up ice cubes"... Never again
 
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